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most citedFirst Light for GRAVITY: Phase Referencing Optical Interferometry for the Very Large Telescope Interferometer

588 citations · 1.1k across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

astro-ph.IM2025★ 8 cited

First Light for the GRAVITY+ Adaptive Optics: Extreme Adaptive Optics for the Very Large Telescope Interferometer

GRAVITY+ Collaboration, :, F. Allouche +137

GRAVITY+ improves by orders of magnitude the sensitivity, sky-coverage and contrast of the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI). A central part of this project is the develop…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 63 cited

A dynamical measure of the black hole mass in a quasar 11 billion years ago

R. Abuter, F. Allouche, A. Amorim +124

Tight relationships exist in the local universe between the central stellar properties of galaxies and the mass of their supermassive black hole. These suggest galaxies and black h…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 1 cited

First light of VLT/HiRISE: High-resolution spectroscopy of young giant exoplanets

A. Vigan, M. El Morsy, M. Lopez +46

A major endeavor of this decade is the direct characterization of young giant exoplanets at high spectral resolution to determine the composition of their atmosphere and infer thei…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 42 cited

The Enhanced Resolution Imager and Spectrograph for the VLT

R. Davies, O. Absil, G. Agapito +81

ERIS, the Enhanced Resolution Imager and Spectrograph, is an instrument that both extends and enhances the fundamental diffraction limited imaging and spectroscopy capability for t…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 21 cited

The GRAVITY+ Project: Towards All-sky, Faint-Science, High-Contrast Near-Infrared Interferometry at the VLTI

GRAVITY+ Collaboration, :, Roberto Abuter +134

The GRAVITY instrument has been revolutionary for near-infrared interferometry by pushing sensitivity and precision to previously unknown limits. With the upgrade of GRAVITY and th…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 84 cited

CRIRES on sky at the ESO Very Large Telescope

R. J. Dorn, P. Bristow, J. V. Smoker +49

The CRyogenic InfraRed Echelle Spectrograph (CRIRES) Upgrade project CRIRES extended the capabilities of CRIRES. It transformed this VLT instrument into a cross-dispersed spe…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 31 cited

First Light for GRAVITY Wide: Large Separation Fringe Tracking for the Very Large Telescope Interferometer

GRAVITY+ Collaboration, :, R. Abuter +114

GRAVITY+ is the upgrade of GRAVITY and the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) with wide-separation fringe tracking, new adaptive optics, and laser guide stars on all four 8…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 12 cited

Mid-infrared circumstellar emission of the long-period Cepheid l Carinae resolved with VLTI/MATISSE

V. Hocdé, N. Nardetto, A. Matter +149

The nature of circumstellar envelopes (CSE) around Cepheids is still a matter of debate. The physical origin of their infrared (IR) excess could be either a shell of ionized gas, o…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 43 cited

The asymmetric inner disk of the Herbig Ae star HD 163296 in the eyes of VLTI/MATISSE: evidence for a vortex?

J. Varga, M. Hogerheijde, R. van Boekel +133

Context. The inner few au region of planet-forming disks is a complex environment. High angular resolution observations have a key role in understanding the disk structure and the…

astro-ph.IM2020

Infrared wavefront sensing for adaptive optics assisted Galactic Center observations with the VLT interferometer and GRAVITY: operation and results

Stefan Hippler, Wolfgang Brandner, Silvia Scheithauer +15

This article describes the operation of the near-infrared wavefront sensing based Adaptive Optics (AO) system CIAO. The Coudé Infrared Adaptive Optics (CIAO) system is a central au…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 115 cited

An image of the dust sublimation region in the nucleus of NGC 1068

GRAVITY Collaboration, O. Pfuhl, R. Davies +40

We present near-infrared interferometric data on the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 1068, obtained with the GRAVITY instrument on the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope Inter…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 38 cited

Multiple Star Systems in the Orion Nebula

GRAVITY collaboration, Martina Karl, Oliver Pfuhl +133

This work presents an interferometric study of the massive-binary fraction in the Orion Trapezium Cluster with the recently comissioned GRAVITY instrument. We observe a total of 16…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 3 cited

GRAVITY chromatic imaging of Eta Car's core

GRAVITY Collaboration, J. Sanchez-Bermudez, G. Weigelt +132

Eta Car is one of the most intriguing luminous blue variables in the Galaxy. Observations and models at different wavelengths suggest a central binary with a 5.54 yr period residin…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 21 cited

Sub-milliarcsecond Optical Interferometry of the HMXB BP Cru with VLTI/GRAVITY

GRAVITY Collaboration, I. Waisberg, J. Dexter +68

We observe the HMXB BP Cru using interferometry in the near-infrared K band with VLTI/GRAVITY. Continuum visibilities are at most partially resolved, consistent with the predicted…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 588 cited

First Light for GRAVITY: Phase Referencing Optical Interferometry for the Very Large Telescope Interferometer

GRAVITY Collaboration, R. Abuter, M. Accardo +130

GRAVITY is a new instrument to coherently combine the light of the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope Interferometer to form a telescope with an equivalent 130 m di…